A public service matter......For suo moto action by the authoriies.
What has prompted us to address you has been a news item in the press a few days back that your dept, police and GTZ jointly removed and destroyed pressure horns from buses on the main roads.
We, the residents of Hayatabad submit the following for your sympathetic consideration:
1. That we hail and appreciate this action on part of the government and term it a good omen to prevent the public from the harmful effects of the noise these pressure horns were causing.
2. That it requires to be enforced not only on public transport plying on main roads and highways but it is needed more in the residential areas, especially Hayatabad, which was built specifically for its residents to take a sigh of relief from the noise and other forms of pollution of the congested areas of the metropolis.
3. That almost all the public transport plying on the roads, especially in the streets of Hayatabad are fitted with pressure horns and the drivers blow them incessantly causing nuisance to the young children, senior citizens, students, reciters of the holy books, prayers and people in their houses, hospitals, schools and colleges etc.
4. That the most disturbing are the school buses which ply not on roads only but they enter practically every street every morning from 5 AM to 9 AM at the time of collection of students and then at 12 PM to 3 PM when they drop them back at their homes.
5. That these buses use their pressure horns as an indication of their arrival to the waiting students, whereas horn is meant internationally as indication to the road users when they violate traffic laws and that too normal horn and not the ear drum bursting siren like these.
6. That we approached the authorities of these educational institutions verbally and then in writing but they did not respond positively.
7. That we were then compelled to report the matter to the law-enforcing authorities including police, PDA, Emergency Response Centre but none heard our voice.
8. That another source of nuisance is the blasts of the crackers by the children, mostly Afghans, who blast these round the clock, especially during the holy days.
9. That these crackers are sold by the shops in and around Hayatabad, especially in the Karkhano market and some are sold by the hawkers right at the door steps in the town.
10. That yet another source of noise are the tricycles of ice cream companies plying on the roads and traversing each and every street from morning to late night and playing music at the pitch of the choice of their drivers and so not only disturb the residents but also prompt the children to run after them in all odd hours of the day.
11. That these ice cream tricycles have already been forbidden from playing the music in the Punjab by the Wafaqi Muhtasib but this province is still bearing the brunt of this noise.
It is, therefore, brought to your kind notice to relieve the public in general and residents of Hayatabad in particular from this nuisance once for all and educate these so-called educated heads of these educational institutions that horns are disallowed in habitation areas even if these are normal ones, what to speak of pressure horns which are strictly prohibited under all circumstances under the law.
Moreover, if the government is actually serious about the eradication of this nuisance, then cosmetic efforts like isolated checks of vehicles and removal of pressure horns therefrom would not serve the purpose, the actual ban on the import and smuggling of such items could, however, solve the problem once for all.
Raid on the shops which sell these items and complete ban on their sale can get rid of the existing available stock.
Cc:
1. Secretary to GoNWFP, Home & Tribal Affairs Dept.
2. Secretary to GoNWFP, Environment Department.
3. DG, CM &DD, Hayatabad.
4. AIGP, Traffic, NWFP, Peshawar.
5. Press
